Intelligence: A New LookTransaction Publishers - Всего страниц: 227 The concept and measurement of intelligence present a curious paradox. On the one hand, scientists, fluent in the complex statistics of intelligence-testing theories, devote their lives to exploration of cognitive abilities. On the other hand, the media, and inexpert, cross-disciplinary scientists decry the effort as socially divisive and useless in practice. In the past decade, our understanding of testing has radically changed. Better selected samples have extended evidence on the role of heredity and environment in intelligence. There is new evidence on biology and behavior. Advances in molecular genetics have enabled us to discover DMA markers which can identify and isolate a gene for simple genetic traits, paving the way for the study of multiple gene traits, such as intelligence. Hans Eysenck believes these recent developments approximate a general paradigm which could form the basis for future research. He explores the many special abilities--verbal, numerical, visuo-spatial memory--that contribute to our cognitive behavior. He examines pathbreaking work on "multiple" intelligence, and the notion of "social" or "practical" intelligence and considers whether these new ideas have any scientific meaning. Eysenck also includes a study of creativity and intuition--as well as the production of works of art and science--identifying special factors that interact with general intelligence to produce predictable effects in the actual world. The work that Hans Eysenck has put together over the last fifty years in research into individual differences constitutes most of what anyone means by the structure and biological basis of personality and intelligence. A giant in the field of psychology, Eysenck almost single-handedly restructured and reordered his profession. Intelligence is Eysenck's final book and the third in a series of his works from Transaction. |
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... of over 600 experts on certain important and potentially controversial questions in the field of intelligence ; I have taken cognizance of the agreements published in their book , The IQ Controversy , and while I 2 Intelligence.
... question . When I was a young student , this constant was estimated at 500 ; now it is estimated at a tenth of that value , with two major groups debating fiercely whether it is around 30 or around 70 ! Not much accu- racy there ...
... questions you can hear over and over again in the media ? One frequent assertion is that psychologists can't agree on the nature of intelligence , and thus obviously have no idea what it actually is . Another assertion maintains that IQ ...
... questions about intelligence , 99.3 percent agreed on the importance of abstract thinking and reasoning ; 97.7 ... question of particle interaction , " gravitons " as quan- tum mechanics would have it , or what ? Complete agreement ...
... questions are appropriate , and all the elements well known ( or equally unknown , as in non - verbal tests ) . This is an example of a non - verbal test item . How do we know that items such as these actually measure intelli- gence ...
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Intelligence Reaction Time and Inspection Time | 49 |
The Biological Basis of Intelligence | 61 |
What is the Use of IQ Tests? | 81 |
Can We Improve IQ? | 97 |
Many Intelligences? | 107 |
Conditions for Excellence and Achievement | 135 |
Genius and Heredity | 147 |
Psychopathology and Creativity | 161 |
Cognition and Creativity | 173 |
Much Ado about IQ | 187 |
Endnotes References and Comments | 197 |
Mainstream Science on Intelligence | 213 |
Index | 221 |